Life as a family of four

Pros and cons

I had to give McBean a little bit of a warning today. I told him that he better buck up or he’d end up not being breastfed anymore.

He’s been a fussy little bugger about feeding for quite some time now, and Clark is beyond frustrated. Everyday she tells him she’s going to give up soon.

So today I said to McBean that he needs to behave because it’s much cheaper if we don’t have to be always buying formula. Then Clark pointed out that breastfeeding is probably costing us as much right now. And when you factor in the two scripts of Domp.erid.one every month, they probably work out about the same, although I’m honestly not sure how much formula a solely formla feed baby goes through. It doesn’t really matter, the point being that breastfeeding is not cost effective for us right now, any more than bottle feeding.

Then I had a bit more of a think about it and I realised that if Clark stops breastfeeding she can go back to eating wheat and dairy as well. And I’m amazed that she’s persevered so long.

There are so many factors to consider, from any natural immunities he’s getting in the milk, to portability and so many more. We always said that we would review at 3 months – that’s only about a fortnight away now.